- Dubstep - Skream
- Industrial Metal - Nine Inch Nails
- Rock Music - Elvis
- Drum 'n' Bass - Pendulum
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In a record store. WITH A PILE OF SCRAPS A CRACKED COPY OF FL STUDIO.
Nirvana for Grunge.
...Just getting the obvious ones out of the way.
Also, the Trans Siberian Orchestra for Freakin' Rockin' Orchestral Christmas Music *headbangs*.
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- Real mainstream:
- Punk Rock: The Ramones, The Sex Pistols
- Post-Punk: Public Image Ltd
- Synth-Pop: Gary Numan (arguably)
- Jangly Southern What-The-Hell-Ever: R.E.M.
- Relative mainstream:
- Noise Rock: Sonic Youth
- Noise Pop: The Jesus And Mary Chain
- Noise (Harsh): Merzbow (Japan is weird)
- What-Is-This-I-Don't-Even-Core: The Residents
Fun Fact: This can be used to explain everything.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Metallica did bring Heavy Metal more into the mainstream in the early '90s, but to make that possible, they had to water it down. A lot. So much that, whatever you call the result, it's not thrash metal. Compare the Black Album to Seasons In The Abyss, which was released just under a year earlier, and you'll see my point.
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Metalica actually made mainstream metal heavier. Compare their stuff to Hair Metal.
Thrash Metal by its nature couldn't become mainstream, I think. Too aggressive. But Metallica made it about as popular as it could be, before going the watered-down route.
no one will notice that I changed thisWell, that depends on your definition of "metal". Most of the stuff commonly called Hair Metal, I wouldn't call metal at all - rather Hard Rock or Glam Rock.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...Since Metallica was the best-selling band of the 90's (so I've heard), if anything it wasn't thrash they brought into the mainstream, but pop-metal (you can thank them for the Triviums and Avenged Sevenfolds of the world).
Maiden seem kind of anomalous, to be honest. In the UK they've a pretty impressive series of hit singles, including one song ("Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter") which was a number one hit for a couple of weeks. Obviously they've repeated their success almost everywhere in the world.
However, they weren't the most popular NWOBHM (such as it was) band in America during the eighties by far. Who was that? Def Leppard (oddly enough).
edited 21st Dec '11 8:44:38 AM by TheGloomer
In this documentary about NWOBHM, Joe Elliot was talking in his interview about how little he wanted to be associated with the movement at the time and now.
"Do you remember the first time you heard that term, the new wave of British heavy metal, and what you thought of it?"
"The only thing I do remember is desperately trying no to be a part of it. Hard rock covers a multitude of genres from Van Halen to The Kinks. New wave of British heavy metal: for a start, it ties you into being British. In the mainstream press, heavy metal was always thought of as being stupid, and I didn't want us to be a part of that. I want us to be mentioned in the same breath as Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd; these were all the kind of bands that we'd seen the global success they had achieved, and that was what we were after."
If they don't want to be a part of NWOBHM, what did they popularize? In my opinion, glam metal was first really started by Van Halen; besides, Def Leppard don't want to be a part of that either.
P.S: According to the documentary, the guy who coined the term (Geoff Barton) believes Iron Maiden's debut was the first big hit in the name of NWOBHM.
edited 22nd Dec '11 12:51:30 PM by Alucard
I think Def Leppard want to be some kind of seventies glam rock band. They want to be the Sweet or T. Rex or something.
What I meant was that they were the only band that was at one point in the distant past associated with the NWOBHM tag (whether they liked it or not) that became very successful in America.
Hip-Hop: RunDMC and The Beastie Boys
edited 31st Dec '11 8:58:06 AM by KingNerd
The smartest idiot you will ever meet.Didn't Bill Haley get popular before Chuck Berry? Maybe he didn't, I can't remember.
I'm trying to decide who popularised ska music. Bob Marley brought reggae into the mainstream (or at the very least, Eric Clapton's cover version of "I Shot the Sheriff" did that), but what about ska? In Britain, old Blue Beat records and artists like Prince Buster were very popular, but they never really took off in America.

I don't think there is already a thread for this.
Who are some of the artists responsible or credited for bringing the genre they played in into the public eye?